Posts Tagged: Travels and Other Places

Mmmmm... Acrid Hotel Room Coffee...

Posted by Alan McLeod on Monday, November 23, 2009 in Travels and Other Places - 2 comments

Acrid. A bit of vinegar. A bit of dirt. Hotel coffee makes you want to get up and out the door early to find another cup of coffee. At least there is no milk powder. Seems like they took the powder, added water and put it into little creamer tubs. Tastes the same. A bigger surprise was finding out …

Big Easlakia Base Ball News Circa 1874

While I was over hobnobbing with the shaken and moved of the southern part of our Easlakian neighbo(u)rhood, I have actual stuff to do. Base ball stuff as I wanted to research the Watertown tournament of 1874 given that there were references to it in the Kingston papers of the time. I had thought …

The Last Time Someone Else Won, They Were Whigs

Posted by Alan McLeod on Wednesday, November 4, 2009 in 2009 US Politics, Travels and Other Places - 1 comment

That was the line of the night. Apparently, the last time portions of New York state's 23rd district of the US Congress were not represented by Republicans, they were represented by Whigs. It was the equivalent of a by-election for the House of Commons. But it had a very different feel. While … read more »

Scratch In The New York Times

Posted by Alan McLeod on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 in Travels and Other Places, Me and Mine - 2 comments

Just in case you wondered, one of the reasons we go to the "cottage" we do in Maine is that Scratch Baking sits on one of the few blocks walk between the place we rent and our pals' house. If I could, I'd get in the car now to drive there for nine hours, gab all evening, crash, wake up and grab a …

On The Road And At Work...

Posted by Alan McLeod on Thursday, September 10, 2009 in Travels and Other Places, Me and Mine - leave a comment

... and it's not a blizzard. • I never get to hit the road for work. I get a day conference or two a year maybe but that is about the edjification, right? I really miss the days of getting in the pickup truck or van full of grounds keeping gear and actually having to go somewhere to do something …

Here Wee Doggie... Good Wee Doggie...

Posted by Alan McLeod on Tuesday, September 8, 2009 in Travels and Other Places, Food and Drink - 3 comments

Having lived in Holland and Poland for extended periods of time, I realize I may have chomped on Black Beauty's cousin more than once. These things happen and, if I am honest, why salivate over a field of gamboling lambs and repulse at the thought of Bud Clydesdales in a nice cream sauce. But then …

I got this photo last Tuesday as I popped into Marshall Michigan near the Indiana border. The town has a diamond shaped square, if that makes any sense, with this colossus of a fountain. Didn't stop to read the plaque. I should have as I wondered why a town of under 6,000 souls had such a monument …